Give 'Em The BootEpisode October 17, 2006

Give 'em the boot Broadcast on 17-Oct-2006

1:03am - 2:02am

* Filippo Gambetta is from Genova, Liguria. He is the son of the wonderful fingerstyle guitarist Beppe Gambetta, who many Cnadaian audineces may know as one of the members of Men Of Steel with Don Ross. The name of the album, Pria Goaea, means "cliff of the gull" - it's a cliff in Camogli (cinque terre) where Filippo learned to swim as a child - "pria" means "stone" in genoese, "goaea" comes from the sound of the gull: gue', gue'

* Rita Chiarelli, is a Canadian-Italian who has made her career as a blues singer. Her latest album "Cuore" is one of traditional Italian songs sung in Italian and dialect.
* Pino Daniele is a blues singer influenced by the American music of the 40s and 50s he heard as a kid growing up in Naples.

* Massimo Ferrante is a native of Joggi, Calabria. His latest album is of maily traditional tuens from various southern Italian regions, many sung in dilaect and even one in French!
*Riccardo Tesi plays the melodeon (l'organetto), a relative of the accordion (he was one of Filippo Gambetta's teachers).

* Paroplapi are a trio of musicians whose focus is the coming together of music and language from the shores of the Mediterranean. The members of Paroplapi come from france and Italy and the group daings inspiration from the music of these areas.

* Aes Dana's new cd "Frontiera" features two gretas of Irish music: Paddy Keenan on uillean pipes and Martin O'Connor on accordion. Their music is a fascinating mix of Irish and Mediterranean musical influences.